 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...the middle. After supper, the company all attend the bailiff (or head of the oxen) to the wain-house, where the following particulars are observed : The...company follow his example, with all the other oxen, and addressing each by his name. This being finished, the large cake is produced, and, with much ceremony,... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1853 - 580 pages
...the middle. After supper, the company all attend the bailiff (or head of the oxen) to the wain-house, where the following particulars are observed : The...company follow his example, with all the other oxen, and addressing each by his name. This being finished, the large cake is produced, and, with much ceremony,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...which I have often seen tied up in their stalls together), he then pledges him in a curious toast, and the company follow his example with all the other oxen, addressing each by his name. This being over, the large cake is produced with much ceremony, and put on the horn of the first ox, through the... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...the bailiff (or head of the oxen) to the wain-house, where the following ceremonial is ot>served : the master, at the head of his friends, fills the cup (generally strong ale), and stands opposite the first or finest of the oxen (fourteen of which I have often seen... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...the middle. After supper, the company all attend the bailiff (or head of the oxen) to the wain-house, where the following particulars are observed : The...and stands opposite the first or finest of the oxen. Ho then pledges him jn a curious toast: the company follow his example, with all the other oxen, and... | |
 | Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - Customary law - 1874 - 512 pages
...the middle. After supper, the company all attend the bailiff (or head of the oxen) to the wainhouse, where the following particulars are observed : the...and stands opposite the first or finest of the oxen (twenty-four of which I have often seen tied up in their stalls together) ; he then pledges him in... | |
 | Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - Customary law - 1874 - 492 pages
...the middle. After supper, the company all attend the bailiff (or head of the oxen) to the wainhouse, where the following particulars are observed : the...and stands opposite the first or finest of the oxen (twenty-four of which I have often seen tied up in their stalls together) ; he then pledges him in... | |
 | Edward Walford, George W. Redway - Archaeology - 1884 - 322 pages
...with ale. and stands opposite the first or finest oxen ; he then pledges him in a curious toast, and the company follow his example with all the other oxen, addressing each by his name. This being over, the large cake is produced with much ceremony, and put on the horn of the first ox, through the... | |
 | Archaeology - 1884 - 498 pages
...with ale, and stands opposite the first or finest oxen ; he then pledges him in a curious toast, and the company follow his example with all the other oxen, addressing each by his name. This being over, the large cake is produced with much ceremony, and put on the horn of the first ox. through the... | |
 | 1888 - 636 pages
...company all attend the bailiff (or head of the oxen) to the wain-house, where the following ceremony is observed. The master at the head of his friends fills...company follow his example with all the other oxen, and address each by his name. This being finished, the large cake is produced, and with much ceremony... | |
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He then pledges him in a curious toast: the company follow his example with all the other oxen, addressing each by his name. This being finished, the large cake is produced, and, with much ceremony, put on the horn of the first ox, through the hole above... 
